id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 6816 The OGR Mapinfo TAB driver cannot produce correct projection information when writing TAB files using esgp:25832 projection. lloldrup warmerdam "Ogrinfo should return the following projection information for a TAB file with epsg:25832 projection: {{{ PROJCS[""unnamed"", GEOGCS[""unnamed"", DATUM[""European_Terrestrial_Reference_System_1989"", SPHEROID[""GRS 80"",6378137,298.257222101], TOWGS84[0,0,0,-0,-0,-0,0]], PRIMEM[""Greenwich"",0], UNIT[""degree"",0.0174532925199433]], PROJECTION[""Transverse_Mercator""], PARAMETER[""latitude_of_origin"",0], PARAMETER[""central_meridian"",9], PARAMETER[""scale_factor"",0.9996], PARAMETER[""false_easting"",500000], PARAMETER[""false_northing"",0], UNIT[""Meter"",1.0]] }}} But GDAL versions after 1.4.0.0, ogrinfo returns: {{{ PROJCS[""unnamed"", GEOGCS[""unnamed"", DATUM[""WGS_1984"", SPHEROID[""WGS 84"",6378137,298.257223563], TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0]], PRIMEM[""Greenwich"",0], UNIT[""degree"",0.0174532925199433]], PROJECTION[""Transverse_Mercator""], PARAMETER[""latitude_of_origin"",0], PARAMETER[""central_meridian"",9], PARAMETER[""scale_factor"",0.9996], PARAMETER[""false_easting"",500000], PARAMETER[""false_northing"",0], UNIT[""Meter"",1.0]] }}} Just verified same error exists using GDAL 2.2.0dev from gisinternals. I have found the problem in gdal-1.10.0/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/mitab_spatialref.cpp and here is the patch that works for our GDAL build. {{{ diff gdal-1.10.0/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/mitab_spatialref.cpp.org gdal-1.10.0/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/mitab_spatialref.cpp 343c343 < { 0, 115, ""Euref_98"", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, --- > { 6258, 115, ""Euref_89"", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, }}} " defect closed normal OGR_SRS 1.10.0 normal fixed Mapinfo TAB SRS